The books are the real thing, not clip art. They are from Rob Kall's Library of 500+ Quotation books. These are lovingly collected "middle aged books, dating from 1726 to about 1908. More antiquarian books in the collection date back to as early as 1582 and include a first edition of Fuller's Gnomologia. Photo by Rob Kall

This page leads to a batch of linked pages covering different topics I have collected in the process of building a software and print based quotation collection. There are over 1089 quotations in this part of the web site, with more added regularly. We're happy to accept suggestions for new subjects to add, and to receive your favorite quotes. If there's a great quote you know, for a topic we list, which we don't have, PLEASE send it our way.

If you use a quote from this site for a book, please credit it in your acknowledgements. I invite you to submit new quotes too.

Collecting quotations is a serious hobby of mine. I have about 30,000-40,000 quotes on my hard drive, plus about 350+ quotation related books (sayings, proverbs, etc.) dating back to 1590, and several CD quote collections. I am interested in proposals from publishers, authors, web sites, etc. to develop projects using these resources, which I have been told are among the most extensive in the world.

Deep/Depth (19)"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others." Madame SwetchineDiversity (5)"There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity." Montaigne, Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers

Enlightenment (30)There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart. Lao Tzu

Freedom (41)"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage." Thucydides

Frontiers (15)"Pessimism operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account the possibilities at the outer edges of experience." Norman Cousins

Genius (51)"What is genius or courage without a heart?" --Oliver GoldsmithHealth (47 )We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health. M. Scott Peck

Heart (27)'T is the heart's voice alone can reach the heart." Alfred De Musset

Integrity(28) "So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." Will Rogers

Intention (23)Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet. --George Leonard

Laughter (24) "Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at." Goethe

Learning(56)"The man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated, undisciplined) has wings and no feet." Joseph JoubertMuscle (17) "Our most sacred convictions, the unchanging elements of our supreme values, are judgements of our muscles."Nietzsche, The Will To Power

Pain (27) When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves. Leo F. Buscaglia

Story, Stories (31)"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today." Robert McKee

Stress (15)"..restless thoughts, that like a deadly swarm of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging." MiltonTouch (19)"Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight" Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses

Wonder (15)There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature. Aristotle 384-322BC, Parts of Animals

More to come! Drop me a note to let me know what other topics you'd like covered with quotes. I also do quote searches, using the net, my personal quote data-base and my collection of 100s of quote books and 1000s of reference source books.

My Favorite Quotations

People often ask what my favorite is. There are so many I like, but here are a few I use often and keep coming back to. I know they're not short, but then again, I said quotations, not epigrams. <g>

"A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very nature. A calm, clear mind, not subject to the spasms and crises which are so often met with in creative or intensely perceptive natures, is the best basis for love or friendship. --Observe, I am talking about minds. I won't say, the more intellect, the less capacity for loving; for that would do wrong to the understanding and reason;-- but on the other hand, that the brain runs away with the heart's best blood, which gives the world a few pages of wisdom or sentiment or poetry, instead of making one other heart happy, I have no question."

Thought for Today Quotation Archive George Osner has put together a very impressive quotation resource, definitely worth bookmarking. It includes a list of quotation books and a quotation collection with over 200 subjects, plus six years of quote a day collections.

MaximNet established by the Templeton Foundation as a maxim resource, but perhaps more exciting a place to report on the foundatioin's efforts to develop approaches to using maxims for child character education. Good Work!

Donald Lancon, Jr.'s Quote page not that extensive, but very well linked to the web--the way a really good quote site should, and probably, ultimately will look, in terms of web links. Well, at least a suggestion of it, sans images, and digitized audio and video.